Research methods for studying evolutionary and ecological processes in organizational communication

Management Communication Quarterly

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 211-251

  Monge, Peter ^a   Lee, Seungyoon ^b   Fulk, Janet ^a   Weber, Matthew ^c   Shen, Cuihua ^d   Schultz, Courtney ^a   Margolin, Drew ^a   Gould, Jessica ^a   Frank, Lauren B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

and predator prey models; ecology; event history analysis; evolutionary theory; network analysis; NKC models; organizational communication; research methods; sequence analysis; simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955063615     PISSN: 08933189     EISSN: 15526798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0893318911399447     Document Type: Article

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